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  • Whoooooooooo!: MHW Live Blogs The TRL Finale

    So it’s not an awards show per se, but tonight is the night MTV says goodbye to Total Request Live (or TRL as it’s more popularly known). While the right way to send it off would be to play 1/4 of a video, have some obnoxious kid screaming over it, and feature lots of “whooooooooo!”s, they are sending the show off with a 2 1/2 hour special that’s sure to feature some serious star power. I have selflessly decided to sit through this event with my trusty bag of sour cream and onion Ruffles (Frito-Lay, y’all need to pay up). Worst comes to worse, it should be interesting. I will suspend my Jackson alert for this particular event (ironically, just as some video footage of Michael standing on top of a car (relax, it’s from 2001) pops up on the screen).

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  • New Video: Vampire Weekend’s “Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa”

    OK, no joke. If the year was to end right now, “Vampire Weekend” would be my favorite album released in 2008. The music’s so infectious, so loose, so danceable, every song I hear from it immediately puts a smile on their face. Their new video (the fourth for this album, I think) is for the song “Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa”, and it finds the guys taking their name a bit literally, this time. Anytime I see a video based in a graveyard, I keep expecting to see a bunch of ghosts doing choreographed dance moves. No such luck here, but we do get a vampiress (is that a word?) who looks very much like Avril Lavigne. Weird. Anyhow, enjoy the video, and if you don’t have VW’s CD, I suggest you get it pronto!

  • The Musichelpweb Midyear Report Part 2: The Good, The Bad & Lil’ Wayne

    Hey Folks,

    In addition to this fine site, I also occasionally write (but mostly comment) for a couple of other sites, one being my friend JayVee’s site, The Round Table. You can find it at theround-table.blogspot.com. This column was originally written for them. Enjoy!!

    Believe it or not, 2008 has not been a bad year for music-unless you happen to be a superstar. Particularly a superstar diva. Janet Jackson, Madonna and Mariah Carey have all released fairly underwhelming albums over the first half of the year-with Janet’s the best of a very weak bunch. Hip-hop has also taken a bit of a leave of absence-unless you’re one of those folks who thinks “The Carter III” is a classic, there wasn’t much to gloat about if you were a rap fan for the first part of this year.

    However, there have been some bright spots. Soul singers on the other side of the Atlantic continued their renaissance after Amy Winehouse set one hell of a standard (and you have to admit that “Back To Black” is a work of genius, no matter what you think of her personally) last year. In addition to the new Brit divas, a couple of vets returned after short absences with albums that rank among the best of their careers. And there’s still half a year to go.

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